Get Shorty

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Be Cool
Books in LA
books set in Hollywood
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Chili Palmer series book 1
Chris O'Dowd
Chris O’Dowd
crime books with the Mob
Danny DeVito
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film with John Travolta and Danny DeVito
Freaky Deaky
Get Shorty
Hollywood
Hombre
if you love films
Jackie Brown
Justified
Life of Crime
master of dialogue
Out of Sight
Quentin Tarantino
Ray Romano
Raylan
US hard-boiled crime

Product details

  • ISBN 9780753827291
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'A masterpiece' Martin Amis

'The coolest, hottest writer in America' Chicago Tribune

A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY
has also been adapted for TV with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano.

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he's retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood - and to a true story that would make a great movie. Soon he's pitching to Harry Zimm, a B-grade horror flick producer trying to make a comeback.

As the lure of Tinseltown's dream-makers and gorgeous wannabe starlets becomes increasingly hard to resist, Chili gets caught up in murder,revenge and romance. Will his killer movie ever get made, or will it just get him killed . . . ?

'In Hollywood, home of movies, gorgeous women, players and fast operators - every move you make is a potential scene ... Nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue and scathing wit from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' Time Magazine

'One of the most hilarious and cynical Hollywood revenge novels ever written' Playboy

'Extremely funny, bursting with sustained passages of black comedy . . . a major American novel' Guardian

Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans in 1925. He wrote forty-five books during his phenomenal career, including the bestsellers MR PARADISE, TISHOMINGO BLUES, BE COOL and THE HOT KID. Many have been made into successful movies, including GET SHORTY with John Travolta, OUT OF SIGHT with George Clooney and RUM PUNCH, which became Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN. He is the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. He died in 2013 in Detroit. www.elmoreleonard.com

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